Guild Wars 2

The new queue system has me confused. The options along the side are Standard, Favorites, New Filter, etc. The ‘Play Now’ button says i’ll be matched with people at the same PvP rank. Does Play Now span all the types? Just the one I have selected? How do I know I am playing just standard, old-fashioned maps?

Usually I win 50% of the time or more, but I literally spent 45 minutes of the last hour getting farmed at the spawn door in 4 matches on one server. Not sure if it’s tremendously bad luck or myself and 7 people accidentally landed in some elite server.

Any explanation would be appreciated.

Standard/Favorites/New Filter are filter settings that can be made and modified to filter the displayed games (appearing on the right side). So you can make a preset filter to show only maps you want, or only certain player ranges, or other such things.

Most of the icons on the servers have a description if you mouse over them which tells literally what the icon means and what it does. Play now I think choses a progression server (can increase in rank) which players around the same glory rank as you. However with some settings you can now stack teams in your favor with friends and voip in customs(hotjoin) which you could not do before so of course soloing customs is going to appear worse because people can play with their friends on certain servers.

I see. Thanks for the answers. Is there a way to avoid custom servers with team stacking?

Also, did you play SWTOR on Jung Ma server? Your name looks familiar.